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Comparing thematic features in English and Spanish: A functional analysis of two newspaper genres Moratón Gutiérrez, Lara Lavid López, María Julia Abstract This study is a contrastive description of the clausal thematic features which characterize two newspaper genres -news articles and editorials- in English and Spanish with the aim to determine whether the choices are due to language-specific or to genre specific constraints. The sample used for the study consists of a comparable sample of thirty two texts, sixteen in English and sixteen in Spanish, collected along a number of external and internal criteria to ensure generic, registerial and text type comparability in both languages. The contrastive analysis focuses on three main thematic features: (1) the experiential elements selected as Thematic Heads, (2) the textual and nterpersonal thematic choices; (3) the syntactic features of the Thematic Heads and Pre-heads. The results of the analysis indicate that, though there are some language-specific tendencies, genre-specific constrains seem to be the determining factor in the selection and syntactic realization of the thematic features of the two newspaper genres investigated in this study. 2023-06-20T06:13:20Z 2023-06-20T06:13:20Z 2009-06 2009-06 master thesis https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/46536 http://portal.ucm.es/web/filologia_inglesa_i/ eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ open access Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España